180.636.01
Human Rights and Health Seminar

Location
East Baltimore
Term
4th Term
Department
Environmental Health and Engineering
Credit(s)
3
Academic Year
2024 - 2025
Instruction Method
In-person
Class Time(s)
Wednesday, 1:30 - 3:50pm
Auditors Allowed
Yes, with instructor consent
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
David Stein
Contact Name
David Stein
Frequency Schedule
Every Year
Description
Introduces students to human rights in general, health as a human right, impact of health policies, programs and practices on human rights, and collective impacts of human rights violations, whether gross violations in human conflict or insidious violations associated with mistreatment of individuals and marginalized groups.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
  1. Discuss and begin to understand the realization of the right to health and its consequences for health practice, based on building a "culture of human rights" through law, ethics, policy, economics and 'social norms'
  2. Understand some governmental obligations for health under international human rights law and practice or "custom"
  3. Describe some commonalities between public health and human rights, including human rights law
  4. Discuss application of the human rights framework to the design, implementation, and evaluation of public health policies and interventions
  5. Understand some health impacts of human rights violations
  6. Discuss dilemmas in the application of human rights principles to health research and practice
  7. Discuss some of the numerous roles for health professionals in documenting and ameliorating human rights violations
Enrollment Restriction
Undergraduates are restricted from taking this course
Instructor Consent
No consent required
Special Comments

Held in departmental space